Call Boy 2018

Call Boy 2018

Call Boy 2018

Call Boy 2018
Shônen (original title)
1h 59min | Drama, Romance | 2018 (Japan)

Storyline:

University student Ryo works at a bar part-time to earn money. He is not enamoured with his job or life for that matter. He is introduced to a female pimp who first tests him, and once he passes the hurdle, employs him as a male escort. Ryo takes to his job like a duck to water and prides himself in satisfying his diverse clientele. Getting to know the needs and wants of his customers helps Ryo understand himself better. With understand comes cognition and with cognition comes questioning.

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El cazador 2020

El cazador 2020

El cazador 2020

El cazador 2020
1h 41min | Drama | 23 January 2020 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Ezequiel, a 15-year-old teenager, is left alone at home when his parents travel to Europe for a month. One day he meets Mono at the skatepark. But meeting with Mono offers much more than the connection, intimacy, and sex he was looking for. He lands in a chilling situation that possibly makes him feel more alone than he already was.

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Dorm 2006

Dorm 2006

Dorm 2006

Dorm 2006
Dek hor (original title)
1h 50min | Drama, Horror | 2 February 2006 (Thailand)

Storyline:

In Thailand, the young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to study harder and have less entertainment with television. Once in the school, Ton feels outcast and misses his family and friends. He becomes scared with the ghost stories his new schoolmates tell about a boy that died in the swimming pool and a young pregnant woman that committed suicide. He becomes a close friend of the also lonely boy Vichien, and later Ton realizes that Vichien is the boy that drowned in the swimming pool, and his death repeats every night. Ton tries to find a way to help his friend to rest in piece.

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The Terrorists 2011

The Terrorists 2011

The Terrorists 2011

The Terrorists 2011
Poo kor karn rai (original title)
1h 43min | Documentary | 12 February 2011 (Germany)

Storyline:

Two men are in a fishing boat talking. One feels more than one sees that the seawater around them is warm and smooth, teeming with brightly-colored fish. By night, the rubber plantation also comes across as enticing and full of secrets, until lurid reminders of the bloody massacre flash up. This film arose from of a state of shock – about the news, about the subsequent repression in the authoritarian kingdom but also about the debilitating passivity that followed the pro-democracy Red Shirt uprising. It is a radical personal assessment in 17 episodes. An angry protest in the form of a diary, where sexual resistance and erotic fantasies are juxtaposed with thoughtful rummaging through the director’s family album, creating a confusing pamphlet. As a young boy in the 1970s, Thunska was already forced to flee Bangkok for the south with his mother.

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Amarcord 1973

Amarcord 1973

Amarcord 1973

Amarcord 1973
R | 2h 3min | Comedy, Drama | 19 September 1974 (USA)

Storyline:

As the sexually frustrated young adolescent, Titta, anxiously awaits the arrival of spring at an Italian seaside town in Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, a vivid tapestry of interlacing vignettes unfolds. Over the course of a single year, the wide-eyed childhood curiosity; the exciting emotional experiences; vain obsessions, and fervent but dormant pubescent desires coexist with religion, politics, sex, and love. Pivoting around Titta’s loud family, little by little, an ever-changing kaleidoscope of 1930s imagery lure Titta into an entire universe of life-altering moments and undiluted teenage fantasies: the quintessential ingredients of one’s undying recollections. Will the town’s belle, Gradisca, ever find what she is looking for? Does the wild blonde temptress, Volpina, want to settle down? Above all, will the small village’s effortlessly tempting tobacconist grant Titta’s wish?

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Red 2020

Red 2020

Red 2020

Red 2020
32min | Short, Drama

Storyline:

In rural Pennsylvania, a teenage couple’s — James and Lizzy — relationship is interrupted by Aaron, the guy James almost hooked up with four months ago. Red explores being queer in conservative towns during hard times with empathy rather than disdain.

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Backwater 2013

Backwater 2013

Backwater 2013

Backwater 2013
Tomogui (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 42min | Drama | 7 September 2013 (Japan)

Storyline:

Cannes Film Festival winner Shinji Aoyama creates a chilling atmosphere in this adaptation of an award-winning novel. A young man tries to fight the deadly influence of his violent, abusive dad. Will the sins of the father carry on to the next generation in the bloodline?

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Awaydays 2009

Awaydays 2009

Awaydays 2009

Awaydays 2009
Unrated | 1h 45min | Crime, Drama | 22 May 2009 (UK)

Storyline:

On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they’ve always been: sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, fashion, football and fighting.

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Jay 2019

Jay 2019

Jay 2019

Jay 2019
14min | Short, Drama | 11 August 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

Jay, a 13-year-old Taiwanese boy, is fascinated by his toned and athletic older brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him. Steadily, Jay’s fascination develops into an attraction—one with which Jay is forced to reconcile after his brother brings home a girlfriend.

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